AN: Insert disclaimer here! I am so sorry it has taken me so long but the brother broke the computer and parental units haven't seen it fit to repair the computer, much to my annoyance because I pay for the internet at home which I don't even get to use now. I will update my other story, Only the Beginning on Saturday when I am at work, I have been writing the chapter out on paper at home so will have to transfer it at work.Love you all! Hope this isn't too lame… I have a feeling it is a little cliché and sappy, but who cares, its my story! Read on!
Chapter 6 – Now What?
The five senshi watched fascinated as the Gundam's scaled through the skies. They had never seen anything quite like it before in their lives. Finally their joyride had come to an end as they came upon a mansion where the warehouse at the back opened up to allow the Gundam's to land. The roof closed over the Gundam's and the men jumped out and Quatre, Trowa and Duo offered their partners a hand down, Venus and Mars descended without any assistance casting angry glances at their hosts.
"If I have to listen to that moron go on about the weakness of women I swear, I swear I am going to castrate him and let him see what its like for himself to be a woman," Venus hissed in Mars's ear trying hard to control her anger, not wanting to start a scene.
Wufei folded his arms over his chest and was grinning smugly at Venus. Heero moved to stand closer to Mars for he didn't want her to get out of his sight, and Mars gave him a weird look and stepped away from him. After all that had transpired in the cockpit, she didn't want to start giving anyone any ideas, she knew she would never hear the end of it from Venus and Jupiter already. Venus went and stood beside Saturn still looking suspiciously at Quatre who blushed and moved further away from the two of them. Duo had left Jupiter's side and bounded over to Mercury as soon as he saw her and Mercury looked terribly uncomfortable at the way he was leering at her. Just as Venus was about to flick his nose Trowa grabbed Duo by the braid and pulled him off the embarrassed senshi of Mercury much to Duo's indignation.
"Stop chasing after the stupid Onna's Maxwell, none of them want you," Wufei commented smartly, grinning and Duo grinned back letting the insult slide off him like water well used to the taunting of Wufei. Venus however had had just about enough of the sexist pig. Giving a nod in Jupiter's direction, Jupiter smiled and stuck out her foot as Wufei strutted by and Wufei's pride was his downfall as he tripped and his face greeted the ground with a dull thud.
"And that Wuffie my little powder puff, is girl power," Duo gloated standing over Wufei's prone figure and Wufei got to his feet growling, his face flushed with fury and Jupiter gave him an innocent smile of mirth. Wufei pushed Duo away from him and went to skulk in the shadows.
A mechanical door slid open and five little men; all dark in colour shuffled in lead by a smiling man, obviously the boss.
"Master Quatre, I thank Allah for your safe return, and you have brought extra guests, such beautiful young women, your girlfriends?" Rashid asked Quatre curiously winking and Quatre rolled his eyes at Rashid's overactive imagination, although Quatre stole a gaze at Saturn who was staring at him and his heart started to beat faster. Quatre tore his eyes away from her and addressed Rashid.
"Just our good friends Rashid," Quatre dispelled any sort of ideas and Rashid chuckled.
"Very well, the rooms are ready for your guests, shall I take them to their rooms?" Rashid enquired and Quatre had watched the senshi and pilots all reacting with each other and noticed most everyone was irritated and tired, tonight was not the time for the talk. They all needed rest, desperately.
"Yes I think that would be most appropriate," Quatre agreed and Rashid bowed his head.
Quatre clapped his hands to take his guests attention and they all turned to stare at him.
"If the ladies would please follow Rashid to your rooms, we are all very tired, I will have dinner brought up to you in your rooms," Quatre announced and
"But what about…?" Mercury protested and Quatre waved her concerns away.
"There will be time to talk tomorrow," Quatre assured them all making them all aware that he had not forgotten and the girls all smiled sweetly, thankful for him.
"Thank you Quatre," they chorused before following Rashid out of the hanger.
Quatre led the Pilots to his study where they all indulged in a glass of brandy. They remained silent and contemplating their own thoughts for a few moments, remembering the events that had brought them to this point.
"Do you believe her?" Quatre asked the pilots out loud and Duo looked at him blankly.
"Believe what?" he asked and Quatre elaborated,
"That she knows what just happened to us?"
They all became silent again, even Duo who considered what little he did know of the girls. They seemed trustworthy and bent on completing their mission.
"I don't know, but it will be interesting to hear her out," Trowa finally spoke up, voicing his opinion and Heero nodded.
"I think she knows something," Heero agreed looking to Wufei who refrained from commenting still miffed that the girls had embarrassed him in front of his comrades.
"I think we should hear her out too," Duo said grinning as an idea came to his head and too bad for him Wufei caught onto what he was thinking.
"Of course you would Maxwell, you just want to hit on the onnas as much as you can," Wufei muttered and Duo shrugged.
"So? I am a man believing in opportunities."
"You're a disgrace," Wufei insulted him and Duo smiled that grin of his.
"Takes one to know one," Duo retorted and Wufei was about to start ranting and raving when Quatre clapped his hands again calling their attention.
"Enough, we are all tired and irritable, let us all sleep and tomorrow hopefully we will have some answers," Quatre said and the others all agreed, Heero and Trowa leading the way out of the room. Wufei gave Duo a threatening glare before taking his leave and Duo was just about to depart when Quatre's voice called him.
"And Duo?"
"What?" Duo asked wondering what Quatre had to say to him that he didn't have to say to the other pilots.
"Stay out of their rooms, if I catch you in any one of their rooms there will be trouble, starting with us holding you down so Wufei can cut off your braid," Quatre warned him, his eyes glinting with promise and Duo's mouth dropped open and Quatre strode by him in the direction of his room.
"A disease, Quatre's caught the Wufei disease," Duo murmured in shock making his way to his own room, his braid clutched lovingly in his hands.
Mercury had fallen asleep as soon as her head his the pillow. And now she found herself in her dreams, in a palace so beautiful, like an old castle. She was alone in her room, playing her harp when suddenly her door was thrown open and she was surprised yet secretly delighted to see Duo standing there in all his finery, an ice sword in his hand.
"Look Amy, can you believe it, they made me your protector! Now I can be with you all the time," Duo held up his hand with the sword and showed her. Amy felt so relieved. Duo was to become her knight, the Knight of Mercury, her own personal protector. His possession of the sword meant that Queen Serenity had chosen him to wield the sword of Mercury and to be joined to her forevermore.
"Duo, this is wonderful!" Amy said running to hug him and Duo spun her around elated, both of them laughing and giggling.
"Look at you, so much happiness and joy, I used to know a girl who was called an ice queen because everyone thought she was emotionless," Duo teased her a little his eyes shining with fun and Amy responded likewise.
"I once knew a young man who dared to make that ice queen fall in love with him," Amy whispered huskily and Duo's eyes near popped out of his head.
"You love me?" Duo asked in disbelief and Amy let out a tinkle of laughter, wondering how he could be so dense.
"Isn't it obvious?" she asked kissing him and Duo spun her around again.
"It is now, I love you Amy," Duo confessed and Amy looked deep into his eyes taking his hands in hers.
"Come, the night is ours," Amy invited him, leading Duo towards her bed and Duo pulled her to him wrapping his arms around her passionately.
"Always and ever," he swore breathlessly and Amy covered his mouth with hers.
While Mercury dreamt, Jupiter was having a similar dream, although the man in her dreams was a dark haired young man, full of pride. Jupiter saw herself in her bedchamber reading book, but she was preoccupied, obviously waiting for someone to arrive. Suddenly the door to her bedchamber swung open to reveal a young man, her young man, the one she had been waiting for. The book was quickly forgotten.
"I am your protector, it was decided this night by Queen Serenity," Wufei said smugly as he walked into her chamber showing her with pride his sword of lightening. The Sword of Jupiter, that had been handed down through generations of Knight's and now Wufei had become the Knight of Jupiter. Jupiter saw herself bound up to Wufei and throw her arms around his neck.
"Weren't you always my protector?" Lita asked cocking her head to one side to gaze at him adoringly and Wufei reached out to caress her beautiful face, bathed in lamplight.
"You do not need protecting, you are strong, after all you are my woman," Wufei whispered with pride and Lita wrapped her arms around his waist allowing him to pull her in close to him.
"I'm stronger with you," Lita admitted and Wufei smiled bending his head and claiming his lips with her own as they both fell onto Lita's bed.
"I love you always," Wufei whispered to her and Lita's eyes shone with happiness as Wufei gently bent his head kissing her again.
Venus dreamt of a beautiful room, where she herself sat with a young man, his golden shining sword sitting on a table. Hey young man was silent, listening as Mina talked on.
"Trowa, now I am yours, you have been chosen as my protector by Queen Serenity," Mina giggled joyfully running to sit on his lap and shower his face with kisses and Trowa seemed to be taking it all in, as though he couldn't believe it to be true.
"Indeed," he confirmed, not knowing what else to say and Mina pulled back from him frowning a little.
"Always so silent," she commented a little upset that he couldn't share himself with her.
"My joy takes words from my mouth, let me express my joy and my love to you," Trowa finally said his arms closing around Mina's body and Mina shivered with longing.
"I would desire nothing more my love," she confessed as their lips met and both sank into Mina's sheets together, their arms still wrapped around each other as though they were never going to let each other go.
Saturn was embroiled in the most passionate dream of her life. In her dream she saw herself on a bed of purple stain sheets engulfed in Quatre's arms as they kissed each other passionately. Even as Saturn dreamt, she saw herself reach for the buttons of Quatre's jacket and he pulled away from her breathing heavily.
"No Christine, I cannot allow this," Quatre protested sliding off the bed and standing before her and Christine sat up and knelt on the bed her arms reaching for him.
"It is alright Quatre, you were my first kiss, I want you to be my first everything," Christine told him lovingly, her eyes filled with such trust and love and Quatre came to stand beside the bed, caressing her face with his hands.
"Are you sure?" he asked her, looking deep into her purple orbs and Christine nodded.
"Queen Serenity trusted you to be my protector, I trust you to be my lover," Christine said easily and Quatre kissed her slowly, with so much longing that they both moaned.
"I love you Christine, my beautiful princess," Quatre told her pressing his lips to her head as they broke for air and Christine pulled his lips back to hers as she whispered,
"I love you too, my protector."
Mars also dreamt. Of her room, in a beautiful palace Mars saw herself kneeling before a great fire praying silently. Raye was jolted from her prayers by someone grabbing her around the shoulders pressing a hand firmly on her chest pulling her backwards possessively so that her back was against his chest, their bodies melding together. In his other hand was a fiery sword crackling, the sword of Mars, carried by the Knight of Mars, the man who would protect Raye with all his being.
"It is done then? You are my protector?" Raye breathed and the arm holding her released her so she could turn and face Heero who was kneeling behind her.
"Yes," he whispered, his voice becoming gruff, for being so close to her made his heart catch in his chest.
Raye leant forward and pressed her lips to his and Heero grabbed her roughly, like a man clutching at her for dear life, and crushed her to him. Raye made not a sound, knowing that her Heero only knew how to love her this way. He was emotionless most of the time, but when he felt something and he didn't know how to handle it, he just took what he wanted. Raye loved him nonetheless, despite him not being able to confess his love to her in return. It was all there, when he kissed her.
"Now we can finally tell them we are married," Raye whispered excitedly and Heero looked alarmed.
"No," he snapped at her quickly and Raye frowned at him.
"Why?"
"Now is not the time Raye," Heero pulled away from her, standing up to begin pacing. Raye knew her husband only did this when something big was bothering him. They had married two months gone, in secret, with Mina the Princess of Venus and Heero's best friend Duo standing by as witnesses. No one else knew they were married, and the two had done well to keep it a secret for this long, but Raye desired that everyone know her happiness, she couldn't understand why Heero didn't feel the same.
"Heero, what's wrong?" Raye asked getting to her feet and placing her two hands on his shoulders stopping him movement and Heero's blue eyes gazed into hers.
"There is something wrong with Endymion's sister Relena, she has been acting strange lately, loosing her temper with her maids, cursing the guards, telling them all to call her Beryl instead of Relena, its as if she is not herself," Heero explained his face confused and Raye knew there was more to it.
"And what do you suspect?" Raye enquired knowing he had to have suspected something and Heero looked away from her.
"I have an idea but I have no proof yet, but if she knew we were wed, and what I suspect is true you will be in grave danger, and I do not want you to get hurt," Heero's words became choked as he spoke briefly of what he wanted. He couldn't bear it if Raye was lost to him, he just didn't know how to tell her this.
"She still believes herself in love with you?" Raye asked tightly. Her greatest fear was loosing Heero to the pretty Princess of Earth, Relena, although Heero had never once taken an interest in Relena's advances.
Raye had thought herself so lucky when Heero had asked her to dance that night. Raye had noticed him at many dances before but he had never danced with anyone despite being asked many times, and one night he approached Raye for a dance. Raye had been the only one to never ask him to dance, and that had gained Heero's attention. They had secretly dated for 3 months before Heero, quite unexpectedly came up with the idea to wed in secret. Raye had agreed, so in love with her emotionless soldier and, at midnight, in the chapel, Heero and Raye became man and wife, wed by a priest that Duo had dragged from his bed to perform the ceremony. At first glance Raye knew that Heero seemed untouchable, but she knew him more intimately than Heero even knew himself. Raye had been the one to see him laugh, and cry, and it was Raye that Heero had shared all his secret joys and dreams. They loved each other.
Heero nodded to her question and Raye let him go and went to stand by her window, overlooking the lake.
"Why this face?" Heero came up behind her, pressing a finger to the glass pointing at Raye's reflection in the window. His arm encircled her shoulders, so gentle he was now, sensing his wife was brittle and fragile.
"What face?" Raye asked tilting her chin upwards, not wanting to sulk in front of him and hero gave a small smile knowing what she was doing.
"This sad face, the one that hides your beauty," Heero's hands, still gentle and caring came to hold her chin, showing Raye her face, and he bent his head to whisper in her ear, "do you think I could really leave you for the Princess of Earth?"
Raye didn't answer and Heero turned her to face him, holding her hand between his hands and pressing his forehead to hers.
"Raye, I could be with no other, no one could ever understand me as you do," Heero admitted kissing her nose and Raye wrapped her arms around him.
"I love you Heero," Raye whispered and Heero pulled her to him roughly, desiring her.
"I love you Raye," Heero breathed, as their bodies met and melded.
Mercury's eyes fluttered open to find locks of brown hair adorning her pillow. Sitting up Mercury discovered the hair was attached to Duo who was sleeping peacefully beside her. He murmured something in his sleep, it sounded like he said, Amy, and then his arm reached for her dragging her down towards him and Mercury, shocked and surprised let out an ear piercing scream.
Jupiter grunted as something hit her in the face and opening her eyes Jupiter came face to face with Wufei's sleeping face, his arm draped possessively around her shoulders, he was murmuring her name, Lita, over and over. Jupiter looked down and saw that Wufei's other hand had found its way to her ample breast and she let out a scream of horror pushing him unceremoniously out of her bed.
Venus woke to find herself cuddled in Trowa's arms, her head resting on his chest. A little stunned she slowly slid off his toned body onto the other side of her bed. She knelt there a moment trying to figure out what was going on and decided the best thing would be to make no noise and go see Mercury. Unfortunately for Venus, her foot has become twisted in the sheets and when she tried to get up, she let out a scream and as she fell off the bed and onto the floor with a thud.
Saturn heard screams and opened her eyes, coming face to face with Quatre who had also opened his eyes at the exact same time, obviously waking up to the screams as well. The two regarded each other in shock for a few moments before Saturn let out a scream, so shocked to find Quatre here with her when she had just been having such a vivid dream about him. Quatre nearly fell as he grabbed the sheets and raced from the room apologizing to her, as he left not knowing what had just happened.
Mars woke up to find Heero beside her, his arm slung around her body and his leg capturing her beneath him. Mars was even more shocked to find herself nuzzled into him. Mars lay there a moment, not moving trying to figure out what was going on. Nothing came to her. Mars didn't know what to do, so she did what any girl would do after finding a strange man in her bed. She screamed. Her screams echoed the other senshi's screams and there was chaos in the Winner household.
At the same time, Heero, Quatre, Duo, Wufei and Trowa each came running out of the girl's room and met in the hallway gazing at each other in shock and disbelief.
"What is going on here?" Quatre asked in bewilderment and the other pilots had no answer for him.
"You are all in big trouble, that's what," Jupiter said through gritted teeth threateningly as the girls came to stand in each of their doorways glaring at their midnight visitors and the five pilots all suddenly felt very small and inferior.
AN: Just to let you know, the reason I am referring to the senshi in their American/English names (eg Raye, Mina, Amy, Lita and Christine) is because in Kitty's World (My world where my stories live), the senshi were reborn into Japan and received Japanese names like Rei, Ami, Makoto, Minako and Hotaru, they graduated to Crystal Tokyo and received the names Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn, so I say in their old world which is the Silver Millennium, their names are the english version of Sailor Moon names. I think it just makes it easier for readers to know what timeline they are in. So if i refer to them as Ami you now we are thinking old Tokyo, Mercury would be Crystal Tokyo and Amy would be the past. Hope that clears up my use of those terrible english names lol!